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Haiti Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé discussed his country’s ongoing security and socio-political crisis, as well as humanitarian and migration challenges, during an audience with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Saturday. Before the visit, Fils-Aimé stopped in Miami to help launch the construction of a new, multistory Haitian Consulate office in Brickell. He told the Miami Herald that he planned to appeal to the pope for support for an international peace conference on Haiti.

Depuis le début de l’année, plus de 260 000 Haïtiens ont été expulsés de République dominicaine, souvent dans des conditions dénoncées comme brutales par les autorités locales et les ONG. À Anse-à-Pitre, ville frontalière du sud-est haïtien, les structures sanitaires sont débordées par l’arrivée quotidienne de dizaines de personnes qui se trouvent souvent dans un état critique.

Four South Florida men were found guilty on Friday of conspiring to kidnap or kill Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, who was assassinated in his home outside Port-au-Prince on July 7, 2021, plunging the Caribbean country deeper into political turmoil and gang-fueled chaos. The verdict, delivered by a 12-member jury in federal court in Miami, came nearly five years after the assassination, following 39 days of testimony over almost nine weeks. The jury spent just over two days deliberating, after sending a question to the judge about one of the nine charges related to the shipment of bulletproof vests to mercenaries in Haiti, a country under a U.S. arms embargo.

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert R. Ramdin, today presented an update to member states on the Organization’s work in support of Haiti, highlighting concrete progress in political facilitation, electoral preparation, security support, international coordination, and strengthening the Organization’s institutional presence in the country. During his remarks, the Secretary General underscored that the OAS’s efforts have focused on supporting Haitian-led solutions, strengthening coordination among national and international actors, and advancing toward a more structured implementation phase of the Roadmap for Stability and Peace in Haiti.

The assassination of Haiti’s president on July 7, 2021, was the culmination of three months of planning that began in South Florida, where the four defendants on trial and others met to overthrow the country’s leader in their quest for power, contracts and money in Haiti, according to the indictment. All four defendants face up to life in prison if they are convicted of conspiring to kidnap or kill Haiti’s president. The indictment includes several other counts related to the conspiracy charge.